...In Everything Series

Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) or Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) is….In Everything. All living organisms store genetic information using the same molecules — DNA and RNA.This genetic code of molecules is evidence of the shared ancestry of all living things.As Donny Hathaway said, “Everything is Everything”.DNA forms a beautiful double helix that looks like a twisted ladder. RNA forms a single helix.See if you can find the DNA helix in these sculptures from the…In Everything Series:

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DNA is made of chemical building blocks called nucleotides. These building blocks are made of three parts: a phosphate group, a sugar group and one of four types of nitrogen bases.The four types of nitrogen bases found in nucleotides are: adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G) and cytosine (C). The order, or sequence, of these bases determines what biological instructions are contained in a strand of DNA.For example, if your DNA sequencing were organized differently you could have been a Manzanita or a Humming bird.The complete DNA instruction book, or genome, for a human contains about 3 billion bases and about 20,000 genes on 23 pairs of chromosomes. An Octopus has 28 pairs of chromosomes.please click on images (or use keyboard arrows) to enlarge & inform!